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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS
Chapter 771
ACTIONS FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS, CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, SEDUCTION, OR BREACH OF CONTRACT TO MARRY
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F.S. 771.01
771.01 Certain tort actions abolished.The rights of action heretofore existing to recover sums of money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction or breach of contract to marry are hereby abolished.
History.s. 1, ch. 23138, 1945.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 771.01
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Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 771.01.



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Cases Citing Statute 771.01

Total Results: 16

Chubb Indemnity Insurance Co. v. Stoyanovich

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2013-08-14T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 121 So. 3d 607

Snippet: misread Gill, which expressly stated that section 771.01, Florida Statutes, “only bars actions for damages…. at 417 (emphasis added). Accordingly, section 771.01, Florida Statutes (2009), does not bar Chubb Indemnity

Davis v. Hilton

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2001-03-07T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 780 So. 2d 974, 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 2465, 2001 WL 219110

Snippet: distress. • The clear language of Florida Statutes § 771.01 abolishes the claim of alienation of affections…There is no Florida case creating an exception to § 771.01 for a cause of action for alienation of affections

Stone v. Wall

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1999-06-17T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 734 So. 2d 1038

Snippet: of actions for alienation of affections, see § 771.01, Fla. Stat. (1997); Prosser, supra § 124, at 930…Laws of Florida (1945) (now codified at section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1997)); Liappas v. Augoustis

Hoffman v. Boyd

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1997-08-20T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 698 So. 2d 346

Snippet: within the legislative prohibition of sections 771.01 and 771.04, Florida Statutes (1995). These sections…action for breach of a promise to marry. Section 771.01 provides: The rights of action heretofore existing

Sanchez v. Great Western Bank

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1996-06-19T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 675 So. 2d 250

Snippet: PER CURIAM. Affirmed. §§ 771.01, 771.08, Fla. Stat. (1995). No. 95-3077 District Court

Schiller v. Miller

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1993-05-26T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 621 So. 2d 481

Snippet: Florida "Heart Balm" statute, now section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1991), does not preclude an

Duttenhofer v. Duttenhofer

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1985-06-04T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 474 So. 2d 251

Snippet: Mims, 305 So.2d 787 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974) (Section 771.01, et seq., Florida Statutes, bars cause of action

Harrington ex rel. Harrington v. Pages

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 440 So. 2d 521

Snippet: been expressly barred by Section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1981): 771.01 Certain tort actions abolished

HARRINGTON EX REL. HARRINGTON v. Pages

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-11-15T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 440 So. 2d 521

Snippet: been expressly barred by Section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1981): 771.01 Certain tort actions abolished

Gill v. Shively

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1975-10-17T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 320 So. 2d 415

Snippet: their "Heart Balm" statutes, similar to § 771.01, F.S. 1973, preclude actions of any type arising

Mims v. Mims

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1974-10-30T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 305 So. 2d 787

Snippet: public policy to this effect was expressed in F.S. § 771.01 et seq., which outlawed damage claims for alienation

De La Portilla v. De La Portilla

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1973-11-26T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 287 So. 2d 345

Snippet: affections and as such is prohibited by F.S. § 771.01 F.S.A. et seq., which abolishes *347 actions for

Worsham v. Pierce

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1971-04-06T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 251 So. 2d 896

Snippet: Development Co., (1927) 94 Fla. 1010, 114 So. 769, 771. . 1 A.L.R.2d 130. . 1 A.L.R.2d 18. . Perkins

McCaughan v. Gay

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1959-07-03T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 114 So. 2d 170

Snippet: the case of Gay v. McCaughan, Fla.1958, 105 So.2d 771.1 Finding as we do that the decree so entered fully

Liappas v. Augoustis

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1950-07-18T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 47 So. 2d 582

Snippet: theretofore actionable, enumerated in said Act. Section 771.01 of the Act provides that "The rights of action

State v. Lee

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1949-07-18T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 41 So. 2d 662

Snippet: pages 449-450, states the rule viz.: "Sec. 771. 1. Wild Animals. — From the doctrine of